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台南市北區 - 321巷藝術聚落 / 大榕樹經歷多個世代 - 不同語言的故事
North area of Tainan - 321 Art Village / Large banyan tree through many generations - Different language story
North área de Tainan - 321 Art Village / Gran higuera de Bengala a través de muchas generaciones - Historia de un idioma diferente
台南市北区 - 321坑道の芸術の集落 / 大きいガジュマルの木は多数の代々を経験します - 異なる言語のストーリ
North Bereich der Tainan - 321 Art Village / Großer Banyanbaum durch viele Generationen - unterschiedliche Sprachgeschichte
North région de Tainan - 321 Art Village / Grand banian à travers de nombreuses générations - histoire de langue différente
Tainan Taiwan / Tainan Taiwán / 台灣台南
管樂小集 2017/10/07 台南孔子廟 Confucian temple Tainan performances 1080P
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家住安南鹽溪邊
The family lives in nearby the Annan salt river
隔壁就是聽雨軒
The next door listens to the rain porch
一旦落日照大員
The sunset Shineing to the Taiwan at once
左岸青龍飛九天
The left bank white dragon flying in the sky
On 8th of February 1587 Mary Queen of Scots (aka Mary Stuart or Mary I of Scotland) was brutally beheaded by three axe blows at Fotheringhay Castle, England, as her headsman (executioner) missed her neck during the first couple of axe blows! The he raised the head for the crowd to see, it fell and he was left holding only Mary's wig. Mary was implicated in plotting against Elizabeth I of England, her own cousin who had signed the Death Warrant for the execution.
Close up shot of a 22-ct gold plated piece minted by The Tower Mint (Stirling Castle's Exclusive Edition). The shadow of an axe in three sequencial positions is cast to commemorate Mary's decapitation.
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During the Spanish civil war, Heinrich Himmler, well known for his humanitarian sensitivities, asked Franco to reduce the number of executions by firing-squad. Apparently it was bad for the national socialist image.
Both sides in the conflict were guilty of brutal mass executions, but things came to a climax in the weeks after the end of the war, when the victorious and vengeful Fascists are thought to have murdered around 35 000 people in Barcelona alone.
Some say this wall is shattered by bullets. Others say by bomb shrapnel. How many men, women and children had their last glimpse of the world in this tranquil and secluded square?
During that same conflict, 20 children were killed when a bomb exploded in the 1752 baroque church that forms one side of this square.
In 1928 Barcelona's most famous architect, Antoni Gaudí, was on his way to visit the church here in the Barri Gòtic quarter near the Palau Episcopal, when he was hit by a tram. He was taken to a pauper's hospital, where he later died.
A week after making my first attempt to shoot the ideal morning FEC southbound at the MP 356.1 s-curve, the stars would align on Wednesday, September 16th, 2022. Florida East Coast Railway train 193-16, southbound empty limerock & hypercholrite solution traffic from Ft. Pierce, rolls down the grade along the curves past the North Miami Audi dealership with an unorthodox set of power, with 138 cars bound for FEC’s Medley Yard. Leading the train is #FEC713, another one of the railroads former-Union Pacific SD40-2s acquired in 2001, built as UP 3743 in 1980; Trailing is #FEC802 [ES44C4].
This locomotive duo had been captive on the 292/193 unit train for a little over two weeks then, running up to Ft. Pierce from Medley and back on overnight runs, avoiding many of the local photographers. However, the night before, in September 15th, northbound FEC 292-15 encountered a bad order on their train, involving one of their loaded limerock hoppers that suffered a chute malfunction. The bad ordered car dumped its entire load along the mainline. The train made it to Ft. Pierce late, and subsequently departed Ft. Pierce southbound closer to daylight. They would pass through North Miami at 08:09.
Continuing on with the previous post [“Practice”], the stars aligned on the 16th; the late-running 193-16, SD40-2 leader, a clear morning forecast, and no Brightline trains for another 30 minutes. Upon setting up at NE 141st St, only a half hour of waiting was required until the train arrived, with northbound BLF702-16 providing some warmup before the rock runner. Truly one of my favorite shots of the FEC down in South Florida.
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North Miami, FL
FEC Mainline
09-16-2022 | 08:09
ID: FEC 193-16
Type: Unit Empty Rock
Direction: Southbound
Car Count: 138
1. FEC SD40-2 #713
2. FEC ES44C4 #802
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Entering the execution cell at Crumlin Road prison. It's actually just off the Condemned Man's cell, where I'm standing to take the picture - not a long last journey.
Grain added for extra grimness.
Built of concrete and stone, it was the largest amphitheatre of the Roman Empire, and is considered one of the greatest works of Roman architecture and engineering. It is the largest amphitheatre in the world.Construction began under the emperor Vespasian in 70 AD, and was completed in 80 AD under his successor and heir Titus. The Colosseum could hold, it is estimated, between 50,000 and 80,000 spectators,and was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles such as mock sea battles, animal hunts, executions, re-enactments of famous battles, and dramas based on Classical mythology. The building ceased to be used for entertainment in the early medieval era. It was later reused for such purposes as housing, workshops, quarters for a religious order, a fortress, a quarry, and a Christian shrine.
This is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, just east of the Roman Forum. It is the largest ancient amphitheatre ever built, and is still the largest standing amphitheatre in the world, despite its age. Construction began under the Emperor Vespasian (r. 69-79 AD) in 72 and was completed in AD 80 under his successor and heir, Titus (r. 79-81). Further modifications were made during the reign of Domitian (r. 81-96). The three emperors who were patrons of the work are known as the Flavian dynasty, and the amphitheatre was initially named the Flavian Amphitheatre by later classicists and archaeologists for its association with their family name (Flavius).
The Colosseum is built of travertine limestone, tuff (volcanic rock), and brick-faced concrete. It could hold an estimated 50-80,000 spectators at various points in its history, having an average audience of some 65,000; it was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles including animal hunts, executions, re-enactments of famous battles, dramas based on Roman mythology, and, briefly, mock sea battles. The building ceased to be used for entertainment in the early mediaeval era. It was later reused for such purposes as housing, workshops, quarters for a religious order, a fortress, a quarry, and a Christian shrine.
Although substantially ruined by earthquakes and stone robbers taking spolia, the Colosseum is still a renowned symbol of Imperial Rome and was listed as one of the New 7 Wonders of the World. An entirely free-standing structure, it derives its basic exterior and interior architecture from that of two theatres back-to-back. It is elliptical in plan and is 189m long, and 156m wide, with a base area of 24,000 sq. m. The outer wall is 48m tall. The central arena, seen above, is an ellipse 87m long and 55m wide, surrounded by a wall 5m high, above which rose tiers of seating.
Seen during an all-too-short weekend visit to Rome in the summer of 1982, this is a scan from a negative. A temporary floor protecting part of the hypogeum has been installed since then, and there are apparently plans to install a retractable floor across the entire floor. It became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980.
司法博物館 - 臺南地方法院1914 / 有時代感的建築物 - 讓人走入時光隧道
Judicial Museum - Tainan District Court 1914 / The buildings of the times - People into the time tunnel
Museo Judicial - Corte del Distrito de Tainan 1914 / Los edificios de la época - La gente en el túnel del tiempo
司法博物館 - 台南地方裁判所の1914 / 現代的センスの建築物があります - 人に行って時間のトンネルに入らせます
Justizmuseum - Amtsgericht Tainan 1914 / Die Gebäude der Zeit - Menschen in den Zeittunnel
Musée Judiciaire - Tainan District Court 1914 / Les bâtiments de l'époque - Les gens dans le tunnel du temps
Tainan Taiwan / Tainan Taiwán / 台灣台南
管樂小集 2016/11/13 安平古堡 Fort Zeelandia performances 1080P
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家住安南鹽溪邊
The family lives in nearby the Annan salt river
隔壁就是聽雨軒
The next door listens to the rain porch
一旦落日照大員
The sunset Shineing to the Taiwan at once
左岸青龍飛九天
The left bank white dragon flying in the sky
Escultura "Elogio del Horizonte" de Eduardo Chillida en la ciudad de Gijón, Principado de Asturias.
Elogio del Horizonte es el nombre de una escultura de hormigón situada en el cerro de Santa Catalina, en la ciudad de Gijón obra del escultor Eduardo Chillida. Se trata de una obra de grandes proporciones erigida en el año 1990, la cual representa un hito en la carrera de su creador (diez metros de altura, un volumen de 200 metros cúbicos y 500 toneladas de peso).
A partir de un pequeño diseño de Chillida comienza la ejecución de la obra, que arranca con una maqueta en porespan de tamaño natural. Después se realiza el complejo proceso del encofrado del hormigón y, tras su secado, se procede al desencofrado. Una vez desmantelado de su caparazón, el Elogio se somete a una lenta y laboriosa limpieza, que culminará con la obtención de su color definitivo, en el que la mar y el tiempo dejarán su huella.
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Sculpture "Praise the Horizon" by Eduardo Chillida in the city of Gijón, Asturias.
Praise the Horizon is the name of a concrete sculpture located on the hill and Santa Catalina, in the city of Gijón sculptor Eduardo Chillida. It is a work of great proportions erected in 1990, which represents a milestone in the career of its creator (ten meters, a volume of 200 cubic meters and 500 tons in weight).
From a small design Chillida begins execution of the work, which begins with a model in porespan natural size. After complex concrete forming process is performed and, after drying, was the stripping. Once stripped of its shell, the praise is subjected to a slow and laborious cleaning, culminating in obtaining your final color, in which time the sea and leave their mark.
"The final words of Carina Smyth. Good sirs, I'm not a witch, but I forgive your common dimwittedness and feeble brains. In short, most of you have the mind of a goat."
This is my tribute to awesome Carina Smyth from "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales". That particular scene definitely was her crowning moment of awesome, she's so badass! :D She's Hector Barbossa's daughter, after all, of course she's brave, smart, witty and snarky! ;)
She also has a very beautiful music theme, you can check it here:
Les diptyques c'est mieux en fullsize on black ;)
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Terre, 2054.
An 3 après le Soulèvement Des Didiers.
La petite Isabelle est entraînée dès son plus jeune âge à n'éprouver aucun sentiment face à l'exécution d'un être humain belliqueux, déchiqueté par une turbine...
Earth 2054
3 years after the Didiers Uprising.
Little Isabella is trained from her earliest years to not feel any emotion in front of an execution of a warlike human beeing, teared into pieces by a rotor...
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Holga 120 - Fuji Reala 100iso - 10secondes de pose B pour la première photo, 1/100ᵉᵐᵉ pour la deuxième
SS personal about to execute some Partisans after having a recon patrol attacked.
Not all fun and games children.
I was going to enter this photo in the final of Survivor: Flickr Island. But it's not a photo. Well, it's four photos, if you count the dirt layer.
Shots like this amaze and bother me. I used no special photography skill here except that I can take a crisp photo of flames, a stove, and a sunflower.
The real art was the thought, the concept. And the craft was the execution of it. It was a quick job, too--erasing the background of a flame and a flower, adding a drop shadow, clicking a setting on the layers.
So this isn't my entry, in spite of the fact that it's fucking cool! I'm proud of it as art, but I don't consider it photography. It's my own problem, perhaps. But I think others share the frustration in trying to determine what it is.
Tour of Europe 04 2016
Day 13 HISTOIRE de SWAN…
You cannot visit Brugge, and return without a photo with or of a SAN. Why Swans in Brugge?
At the end of the 15th century, the oppressed people of Bruges rose in revolt against the unpopular Emperor Maximilian of Austria.
They captured Maximilian and imprisoned him in the Craenenburg House on the Market Square, together with his equally unpopular adviser, Pieter Lanckhals.
Lanckhals was condemned to death and Maximilian was forced to watch the execution.
The Emperor eventually escaped and later took his revenge: he decreed that ‘until the end of time’ the city should be required at its own expense to keep swans on all its lakes and canals.
And why swans? Because swans have long necks – and the Flemish for ‘long neck’ is ‘lange hals’ – or ‘lanckhals’!
And so a city legend was born…
Reality? More likely…
The first swans in Bruges go back to the Middle Ages.
In the early 15th century, Bruges bought the right to keep swans from the Count of Flanders.
At that time swans were a symbol of distinction.
The killing or stealing swans was forbidden.
Swans were first mentioned in the city accounts in 1403.
At that time the swans tended to stay on the vests around the city because the canals were the water highways of the city and too busy for the swans.
A Mute Swan (Cygnus olor), sleeping with one eye open.
The mute swan is commonly associated with romance because of its stark white beauty, graceful swimming and the fact that it mates for life.
Yet there are many things most people don’t know about this swan, including that it is not native to North America and it can be one of the most aggressive waterfowl.
I chose this strong graphic composition, because I wanted something different. Hope you like it too.
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It is a place with an ominous ambience if you know what happened here. Just below the top of Gallowhill, deep in the woodland is a place of execution. It is said that the gallows were situated on a flat ledge just below the summit of the hill which has commanding views across the Moray Firth, and is the highest point for miles.
This was where many a person who upset the local landowners met their end, their corpses dangling from a gallows would have been visible for miles around. Details are sketchy, but the hill and woodlands are named after the execution site.
There are natural woodlands around the hill, mainly ancient caledonian pines and birches with oaks near the foot but with occasional examples all the way up to near the summit. Much has been planted now, with an array of giant alien commercial species and a wide range of more ornamental varieties closer to the ruined castle of Redcastle.
Redcastle claimed to be the oldest inhabited castle until it was abandoned as giant cracks appeared in the walls and it was deemed too expensive to repair or stop it from toppling into the gully behind. But it is clinging on gamely and still stands. It is from this ancient stronghold that local justice was meted out.
I found the flat place below the summit. It is now covered in birch, with the odd magnificent old pine. Whether the gallows was constructed or they just used a convenient tree - a common practice in the highlands (there is a fantastic gallows tree in Drumnadrochit, beside the Benleva Hotel, for example) is unclear.
The flat place is like a 100 yard long ledge, around the south side of the summit. It has a slight corner in the middle and I thought that would make the best location if deterent visibility was key. As I walked further along I saw an old pine. Bearing in mind that it can be difficult to age old pines, some really old ones are short and stunted and some young ones can be really tall. Perhaps nature has provided the perfect natural hanging tree?
Thames vista from Execution Dock, with the towers of Canary Wharf in distance. London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Execution on Gibbela
19 BBY "The blaster fire has stopped, the battlefield has gone silent, we've finally chased the CIS out of the farmland of Gibbela. With the news of both general grievous and count dooku's deaths this war's end is in sight. Now the only things left to do are informing commander chase of our imminent departure and prepare for my debriefing with the council. Hopefully this will be my last battle of this wretched war."
West Virginia State Penitentiary at Moundsville
A very interesting read from Wikipedia:
Design
The West Virginia State Penitentiary's design is similar to the facility at the 1858 state prison in Joliet, Illinois, with its castellated Gothic, stone structure, complete with turrets and battlements, except it is scaled down to half the size.The original architectural designs have been lost. The dimensions of the parallelogram-shaped prison yard are 82½ feet in length, by 352½ feet in width. The stone walls are 5 feet (1.5 m) thick at the base, tapering to 2½ feet at the top, with foundations 5 feet (1.5 m) deep. The center tower section is 682 feet (208 m) long. It lies at the western side of the complex along Jefferson Avenue and is considered the front, as this is where the main entrance is located. The walls here are 24 feet (7.3 m) high and 6 feet (1.8 m) wide at the base, tapering to 18 inches (460 mm) towards the top.
Founding
In 1863, West Virginia seceded from Virginia at the height of the American Civil War. Consequently, the new state had a shortage of various public institutions, including prisons. From 1863 to 1866, Governor Arthur I. Boreman lobbied the West Virginia Legislature for a state penitentiary but was repeatedly denied. The Legislature at first directed him to send the prisoners to other institutions out of the state, and then they directed him to use existing county jails, which turned out to be inadequate. After nine inmates escaped in 1865, the local press took up the cause, and the Legislature took action. On February 7, 1866, the state legislature approved the purchase of land in Moundsville for the purpose of constructing a state prison. Ten acres were purchased just outside the then city limits of Moundsville for $3000. Moundsville proved an attractive site, as it is approximately twelve miles south of Wheeling, West Virginia, which at that time was the state capital.
The state built a temporary wooden prison nearby that summer. This gave prison officials time to assess what prison design should be used. They chose a modified version of the design of Northern Illinois Penitentiary at Joliet. Its Gothic Revival architecture "exhibit[ed], as much as possible, great strength and convey[ed] to the mind a cheerless blank indicative of the misery which awaits the unhappy being who enters within its walls."
The first building constructed on the site was the North Wagon Gate. It was made with hand-cut sandstone, which was quarried from a local site.The state used prison labor during the construction process, and work continued on this first phase until 1876. When completed, the total cost was of $363,061. In addition to the North Wagon Gate, there was now north and south cellblock areas (both measuring 300 ft. by 52 ft. South Hall had 224 cells (7 ft. by 4 ft.), and North Hall had a kitchen, dining area, hospital, and chapel. A 4-story tower connecting the two was the administration building (measuring 75 ft. by 75 ft.) It included space for female inmates and personal living quarters for the warden and his family. The facility officially opened in this year, and it had a prison population of 251 male inmates, including some who had helped construct the prison where they were incarcerated. After this phase, work began on prison workshops and other secondary facilities
Operation
In addition to construction, the inmates had other jobs to do in support of the prison. In the early 1900s some industries within the prison walls included a carpentry shop, a paint shop, a wagon shop, a stone yard, a brickyard, a blacksmith, a tailor, a bakery, and a hospital. At the same time, revenue from the prison farm and inmate labor helped the prison financially. It was virtually self-sufficient. A prison coal mine located a mile away opened in 1921. This mine helped fill some of the prison's energy needs and saved the state an estimated $14,000 a year. Some inmates were allowed to stay at the mine's camp under the supervision of a mine foreman, who was not a prison employee.
Conditions at the prison during the turn of the 20th century were good, according to a warden's report, which stated that, "both the quantity and the quality of all the purchases of material, food and clothing have been very gradually, but steadily, improved, while the discipline has become more nearly perfect and the exaction of labor less stringent." Education was a priority for the inmates during this time. They regularly attended class. Construction of a school and library was completed in 1900 to help reform and educate inmates.
Cells where the prison's worst inmates were kept.
However, the conditions at the prison worsened through the years, and the facility would be ranked on the United States Department of Justice's Top Ten Most Violent Correctional Facilities list. One of the more infamous locations in the prison, with instances of gambling, fighting, and raping, was a recreation room known as "The Sugar Shack".
A notable inmate in the early 20th century was labor activist Eugene V. Debs, who served time here from April 13 to June 14, 1919 (at which time he was transferred to an Atlanta prison) on charges of violating the Espionage Act of 1917.
In 1929, the state decided to double the size of the penitentiary because overcrowding was a problem. The 5 x 7-foot (2.1 m) cells were too small to hold three prisoners at a time, but until the expansion there was no other option. Two prisoners would sleep in the bunks, with the third sleeping on a mattress on the floor. The state used prison labor again and completed this phase of construction in 1959. The construction had been delayed by a steel shortage during World War II.
In total, thirty-six homicides took place in the prison. One of the more notable ones is the butchering of R.D. Wall, inmate number 44670. On October 8, 1929, after "snitching" on his fellow inmates, he was attacked while heading to the boiler room by three prisoners with dull shivs.
In 1983, convicted multiple murderer Charles Manson requested to be transferred to this prison to be nearer to his family. His request was denied.
1979 prison break
On Wednesday, November 7, 1979, fifteen prisoners escaped from the prison. One of the escapees was Ronald Turney Williams, serving time for murdering Sergeant David Lilly of the Beckley Police Department on May 12, 1975. He managed to steal a prison guard's service weapon in the escape, and upon reaching the streets of Moundsville, encountered twenty-three-year-old off-duty West Virginia State Trooper Philip S. Kesner, who was driving past the prison with his wife.
Trooper Kesner saw the escapees and attempted to take action against them. The prisoners pulled him from his car and Williams shot him. Trooper Kesner returned fire at the fleeing suspects despite being mortally wounded.
Williams remained at large for eighteen months, sending taunting notes to authorities and making the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List. During that time, he murdered John Bunchek in Scottsdale, Arizona during a robbery and was connected to crimes in Colorado and Pennsylvania. After a shootout with federal agents at the George Washington Hotel in New York City in 1981, he was apprehended and returned to West Virginia to complete several life sentences. Arizona had sought his extradition for his execution, but as of 19 January 2018 he remains in West Virginia custody.
At the time, Marshall County Sheriff Robert Lightner was very critical about poor police communications during the break. The sheriff's office and local police did not learn about the escape from the state police. They first heard of it over the police scanner. "It was a good twenty minutes before we knew about the escape. If somebody had notified us, there's a good chance that the sheriff's department and the Moundsville police could have been on the scene while all the prisoners were still on the block." He was also critical of the four-state manhunt that followed, when convicted murderers David Morgan and Ronald T. Williams, along with convicted rapist Harold Gowers, Jr., remained at large. "Communications have been very poor. I think they should keep the local law enforcement officers more informed I have no idea what they're doing, what they've found."
1986 riot
January 1, 1986 was the date of one of the most infamous riots in recent history.[citation needed] The West Virginia Penitentiary was undergoing many changes and problems. Security had become extremely loose in all areas. Since it was a "cons" prison, most of the locks on the cells had been picked and inmates roamed the halls freely. Bad plumbing and insects caused rapid spreading of various diseases. The prison was holding more than 2,000 men and crowding was an issue. Another major contribution to the riot's cause was the fact that it was a holiday. Many of the officers had called off work, and prisoners planned to conduct their uprising on this specific day.
At around 5:30 pm, twenty inmates, known as a group called the Avengers, stormed the mess hall where Captain Glassock and others were on duty. "Within seconds, he (Captain Glassock), five other officers, and a food service worker were tackled and slammed to the floor. Inmates put knives to their throats and handcuffed them with their own handcuffs."Although several hostages were taken throughout the day, none of them was seriously injured. However, over the course of the two-day upheaval, three inmates were killed for an assortment of reasons. "The inmates who initiated the riot were not prepared to take charge of it. Danny Lehman, the Avengers' president, was quickly agreed upon as best suited for the task of negotiating with authorities and presenting the demands to the media." Yet, Lehman was not a part of the twenty men who began the riot. Governor Arch A. Moore, Jr. was sent to the penitentiary to talk with the inmates. This meeting set up a new list of rules and standards on which the prison would build. National and local news covered the story, as well as the inmates meeting with Governor Moore.
Decommissioning
Toward the end of its life as a prison, the facility was marked by many instances of riots and escapes. In the 1960s, the prison reached a peak population of about 2,000 inmates.[4] With the building of more prisons, that number declined to 600 – 700 inmates by 1995. The fate of the prison was sealed in a 1986 ruling by the West Virginia Supreme Court which stated that confinement to the 5 x 7-foot (2.1 m) cells constituted cruel and unusual punishment. Within nine years, the West Virginia State was closed as a prison. Most of the inmates were transferred to the Mt. Olive Correctional Complex in Fayette County, West Virginia.A smaller correctional facility was built a mile away in Moundsville to serve as a regional jail.
Executions
The original Old Sparky on display
From 1899 to 1959, ninety-four men were executed at the prison. Hanging was the method of execution until 1949, with eighty-five men meeting that fate. The public could attend hangings, which were public until June 19, 1931. On that date, Frank Hyer was executed for murdering his wife. When the trap door beneath him was opened and his full weight settled into the noose, he was instantly decapitated. Following this event, attendance at hangings was by invitation only. The last man executed by hanging, Bud Peterson from Logan County, was buried in the prison's cemetery because his family refused to claim his body.
Beginning in 1951, electrocution became the means of execution. The electric chair, nicknamed "Old Sparky", used by the prison was originally built by an inmate there, Paul Glenn. Nine men were electrocuted before the state prohibited capital punishment entirely in 1965. The original chair is on display in the facility and is included in the official tour.
The prison has been featured in a variety of books, films, television shows, songs and video games.
Novels
Moundsville native Davis Grubb has written a couple of novels with Moundsville as the setting, Fools' Parade (also known as Dynamite Man from Glory Jail) and The Night of the Hunter. The penitentiary was featured as a significant part of each plot.
Film
These works by Grubb have been adapted as major motion pictures. The Night of the Hunter was adapted into a film by Charles Laughton and James Agee in 1955. It stars Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters. Fools' Parade, starring James Stewart, Kurt Russell, and George Kennedy, was adapted into a film in 1971.
Prison scenes in the 2013 film Out of the Furnace were filmed on site at the penitentiary.[19]
Television
Many ghost-themed or science fiction television shows have visited the prison:
* ABC Family’s Scariest Places on Earth originally aired on October 29, 2002.
* A&E's Paranormal State originally aired on January 12, 2010.
* Discovery Channel's Ghost Lab originally aired on November 20, 2010.
* MTV's Fear allowed six college students to experience the so-called "haunted prison" for themselves in the 2000 pilot episode.
* Syfy's The Dresden Files. (Exterior images)[citation needed]
* Syfy's Ghost Hunters episode 303, originally aired on October 25, 2006.
* Syfy's Stranded, a paranormal reality show, featured the prison in the first season's third episode on March 13, 2013.[20]
* Syfy's Warehouse 13. (Exterior images)[citation needed]
* Travel Channel's Ghost Adventures originally aired on October 31, 2008.
* Destination America's Ghost Asylum, which originally aired on May 17, 2015.
* Netflix’s Mindhunter, which originally aired on October 13, 2017.
Songs Edit
The prison is mentioned in the song "You Missed My Heart" by Mark Kozelek and Jimmy LaValle on their 2013 collaboration Perils from the Sea. Kozelek also references Wheeling, West Virginia in his lyrics to the song.
1994, Soweto, South Africa --- South African police arrest a Zulu man suspected of being a sniper, a few weeks before South Africa's free elections of April 1994. Severe conflicts between the Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party and the African National Congress broke out during preparations for the election --- Image by � David Turnley/CORBIS
I had done a photo like this almost 2 years ago that was inspired by terra kate and wanted to redo it, I'll try to find the first one and post it in the comment box!
published on vogue
www.vogue.it/en/photovogue/Portfolio/717048e6-3e03-404c-9...
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El fusilamiento / The execution
El distrito de Barajas revive la ocupación de las tropas franceses de Napoleón Bonaparte en el año 1808
Un detall de la 4ª Galeria de la Model, per a presos reincidents.
La presó model s’inaugurà el 1904 i va tancar el 2017. Prácticament d’inici ja va perdre aquesta caracteristica de model amb el que fou disenyada (primer motí ja al 1906), i la sobrepoblació de presoners fou constant, així com unes condicions generalment deplorables. Disenyada per a 1000 presos, al 1940 arribà als 13.000! No només és un punt historic per la historia criminal de Catalunya, sino també com a element esencial en la represió política, molt en especialment per part del regim feixista. Nombroses persones foren executades o partiren cap a la seva execució des de la Model (unes 1600). El més famós executat de tots, el darrer, Salvador Puig Antich.
Ara s’ha obert al public i es pot visitar lliurement. Cal aprofitar-ho ja que es preveu que aviat es començaran a tirar a terra el mur perimetral i bona part dels edificis secundaris. La part central, el panoptic i la majoria de galeries es conservaran, però perdran la pàtina original (ronya, de fet), i fotogràficament no serà el mateix.
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pres%C3%B3_Model_de_Barcelona
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This is the 4th Gallery of La Model prison, for recividating inmates and others difficult to adapt.
La Model entered service in 1904 and was closed in 2017, after decades of public demands of closure due to the deplorable condition of the inmates and the bad image for the surroundings. As the name suggests, it was intented to be a modelic prison, but although it was a modern design in early XX Century, soon the conditions deteriorated, and the first mutiny was just in 1906. Designed for 1000 inmates, in 1940 it reached a peak of 13.000 inmates, mostly political prisoners of the fascist Franco regime. Hundres left this place in their way to their execution. The last political victim was Salvador Puig Antich, executed in La Model in 1974. In fact La Model is a very important place to understand the history of the political represion in Catalonia, specially by the fascist regime between 1939 and 1978 (and beyond). Also it reflected the criminal and social problems of Barcelona in the XX Century.
Now the former prison is open to the public, but soon will be partly demolished (the surrounding wall and secondary buildings) to made parks, and the main building redeveloped for civic activities and also a history museum. So the time to take pictures is now or never.
Parámetros :: Parameters :: Paramètres: Canon EOS 7D; ISO 100; 0 ev; f 7.1; 1/160 s; 147 mm Sigma 18-250mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS HSM.
Título :: Title :: Titre ::: Fecha (Date): Fin de verano, fin de tortura :: End of summer, end torture :: Fin de l'été, à la fin de torture ::: 2015/08/09 08:01
:: Fray, Ava, Gardner, Orson, Welles, Pablo, Picasso, Ernest, Hemingway, Toro, Torero, Cobardía, Tortura, Cultura, Muerte, Dolor, Sangre, España, Vergüenza, Ava Gardner, Orson Welles, Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, Bull, Torero, Cowardice, Torture, Culture, Death, Pain, Blood, Spain, Embarrassment ::
(Es). Historia: Bayas. Asturias. España. Fray ha ido mejorando de la intervención quirúrgica en estos días. El seroma interior alrededor de la zona intervenida ha ido reduciéndose gradualmente. Ya no necesita salir a menudo para vaciar la vejiga, siendo capaz de esperar en casa más de ocho horas sin necesidad de salir a evacuar. Y vuelve a dedicar el tiempo normal en dejar marca de territorio y no como mecanismo prolongado de esfuerzo para evitar aquel dolor que tenía días atrás debido a la obstrucción uretral. En esta foto de aquellos nefastos días se congela uno de los momentos en que estaba en esa postura durante minutos, esforzándose en un lento goteo en el intento de vaciar la vejiga. Así que ahora que todo va pasando: fin de verano… fin de tortura.
Pero en otro orden de cosas, en esta España mía, en esta España nuestra, fin de verano y fin de tortura no es sólo para Fray. España, ese país tan extraño donde perviven un conjunto de leyes en contra del maltrato animal pero, en cambio, tenemos leyes que regulan como divertirse viendo torturar y matar a un toro de lidia en un coso taurino. Incluso hay una completa des-regulación de las becerradas, un festejo aún más cruel que los que vemos en una corrida de toros.
Los becerros son reses de menos de dos años de edad, casi simples cachorros de toros. A estos becerros se les lleva a plazas donde se juntan cientos de personas, que auto-considerados valientes, les acosan en el ruedo, engañados, torturados y asesinados por esos cientos que suman entre vecinos de los pueblos y sus invitados, cortándoles rabos y orejas en muchas ocasiones cuando aún estando vivos. La puntilla final la puede ejecutar un completo ignorante en dichos procedimientos, pudiendo sufrir el animal en ese momento final de la vida, tardando incluso minutos en su agonía del torpe ejecutor.
El Partido Popular ha permitido la celebración de becerradas en El Escorial, Madrid. Después de años de abolición, se han vuelto a producir. además con asistencia de niños viendo las agonías de los toros y su mutilación aún vivos. Estas becerradas son habituales en verano; fin de verano, fin de becerradas y fin de tortura. El político de turno, el alcalde, se pondrá camisa limpia al días siguiente y saldrá a la calles sonriente, ante también sonrientes, elegantes y "auto-valientes" vecinos que han dejado en la lavadora la ropa ensangrentada. "Panem et circenses".
Esto es también España, país donde se tortura a la cultura con unos impuestos elevados y donde esa tauromaquia llamada "cultura" no es más que mera tortura. Mirad vosotros mismos:
www.eldiario.es/caballodenietzsche/Becerradas-cachorros-v...
becerradas.pacma.es/actuemos.php
yofuiungato.blogspot.com.es/2013/09/aficion-por-la-tortur...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TdTBLU3KxI
www.igualdadanimal.org/noticias/5608/torturas-y-matanza-e...
www.schnauzi.com/colectivos-animalistas-piden-abolicion-b...
No terminaríamos la lista de barbaridades que encuentras en la red sobre todo ello. Y los diferentes partidos políticos españoles continúan, en este aspecto, anclados en la época de la dictadura del "Excelentísimo", aquel "Vigía de Occidente". Unos por alejarse de España, otros por mantener una tradición bárbara en un pueblo contentado, otros por mantener su escaño. No alcanzo a comprender cómo Ava Gardner pudo tener el más mínimo interés en ver estas atrocidades. Tampoco lo entiendo en Ernest Hemingway, ni en Orson Welles, ni en Pablo Picasso. Habrán hecho buenas interpretaciones, escrito buenas obras, dirigido obras maestras del cine o inmortalizado con arte las telas blancas, pero algo malo no aprendieron a desterrarlo de sus almas. Cuando observo las bellezas de sus obras me viene a la mente la barbaridad con la que disfrutaban en parte de sus almas. Es esa contradicción del hombre reflejada en cómo a Pablo Picasso podían gustarle las corridas de toros cuando en su Guernica, junto con las personas, también sufren toros y caballos.
Tampoco entiendo la, al fin y al cabo, cobarde y torticera profesión de un torero. Recibe años de formación matando becerros para aprender a confundir y finalmente matar a un toro. A un toro que, en cambio, sólo tiene 10 minutos para aprender defenderse y a conocer los movimientos del torero; a la mínima sospecha de que está aprendiendo, hay que matarlo o matará al torero. Observad que no existen empresarios taurinos que tengan dehesas donde sus toros fueran formados extensamente, con refuerzo positivo, en los lances del toreo, en prever exactamente dónde está el torero más allá del trapo, hacia donde se moverá y por donde debe entrar con urgencia, cabeza baja y cuernos afilados para alcanzarlo certeramente al primer lance; en conocer la trayectoria exacta de esa ridícula carrera que hará el banderillero y saber qué debe hacer para cornearle sin darle opción a poner las banderillas; en conocer los puntos flacos de los picadores y hacer que el propio caballo, sin provocarle rasguño alguno, tirase al suelo al picador y tenerlo así al alcance de sus adoradas y tiernas astas. Toros que estuvieran formados ampliamente en saber dónde cornear al torero una vez éste está en el suelo, olvidándose de esos capotazos con los que los subalternos que intentan despistarle de la tarea de cornear al caído. En definitiva: disponer de toros de lidia formados en su defensa tanto como el torero y su cuadrilla de ayudantes, con garantías de salir con vida de la plaza cortando orejas y rabo… al torero; las mismas que tiene el torero. ¿Cuántos con leotardos apretados que muestran pantorrilla, brillos en los dorsos, ridículos gorros y agujeros en los sobacos de la chaquetilla, se pondrían delante de esos toros "con Master"?. Paradójicamente los toros serían asesinos si matan al torero, pero los toreros serían maestros si matan al toro. ¡Tócate! (decía mi abuela).
Permítame que insista (parafraseando al hijo de un locutor de radio que retransmitió muchas corridas en años del Excelentísimo, con el mismo "Paco" y con su "Polo de Franco" en el Palco de Honor de la plaza): Todo esto también es "Marca España". Pero tristemente todo esto también "Marca a España"… y no para bien. Cosas parecidas también "Marcan" a alguno de esos "adelantados" países del Norte de Europa, como el asesinato cada año de docenas de ballenas piloto a golpes de mazos y hachas… con los niños del pueblo delante, tiñendo de rojo las aguas del mar durante esa bárbara y tradicional costumbre.
Homo homini lupus?. Esta frase, que no es exactamente así, es del comediógrafo latino Plauto (254-184 a. C.), donde en su obra Asinaria, dice literalmente:
"Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit". Lobo es el hombre para el hombre, y no hombre, cuando desconoce quién es el otro.
Certero este Plauto, cuando deja que la interpretación del lector nos podamos decantar por preferir que "el otro" puede ser incluso cualquier ser vivo además de los hombres.
Toma: Fray me adelanta, como siempre, y permanecía en esa postura minutos completos. Llegaba hasta el y sólo goteaba mirando hacia lo lejos, luego me miraba de reojo y seguía con su postura y esfuerzo. La imagen está tomada a varias decenas de metros de distancia. Tenía tiempo para el encuadre, esperar a que mirase hacia la derecha durante un rato, interpretar su silueta y dejarlo sin apenas detalle en esa sombra tenebrosa reflejo de los días negros que pasó. Hoy no tendría tanto tiempo para hacer esta foto, cuando me disponga a encuadrar y enfocar ya habrá bajado la pierna y estará caminando al trote por delante de mi.
Tratamiento: Con Aperture. Original en RAW. Recorte del encuadre para disponer la linea del mar en la parte alta, debajo del gris del monte del fondo. La roca y Fray en el tercio izquierdo. Marco las sombras intensamente provocando una silueta que en el original es mucho menos evidente. Aumento un poco la saturación y la vibración. Contraste y definición también se han aumentado ligeramente para conseguir definir mejor las dos cañas de pescadores que están sobre la línea del mar, en el borde derecho. Finalmente aplico viñeta.
¡Eso es todo amigos!
(En). The History: Bayas. Asturias. Spain. Fray is having a good evolution of surgical intervention in these last days. The seroma that was produced around the surgical site has been gradually reduced. You need not go out often to empty the bladder, being able to wait at home for more than eight hours without leaving to evacuate. And again requires only the normal time to leave mark territory and not as prolonged stress mechanism to avoid that pain that had days earlier due to urethral obstruction. In this photo of those bad days will freeze one of the times when he was in that position for several minutes, struggling in a slow trickle in trying to empty the bladder. So now that everything goes by: ending summer ... ending torture.
But in other matters, in this Spain that's mine, this Spain ours, so summer and to torture is not only for Fray. Spain, the country where strange survive a set of laws against animal abuse, but instead, we have laws that regulate how fun watching torture and kill a bull in the bullring. There's even a complete deregulation of the becerradas an even more cruel celebration that we see in a bullfight.
Calves are cattle under two years of age, almost simple bull puppies. These calves they are taken to places where hundreds of people who self-considered brave, they bully in the ring, deceived, tortured and killed by the hundreds that have between residents of the towns and their guests, cutting tails and ears gather often while still being alive. The final nail can be performed by a complete ignoramus in such proceedings, the animal may suffer in that final moment of life, even taking minutes in agony clumsy executioner.
The Popular Party has allowed holding becerradas in El Escorial, Madrid. After years of abolition, it has been brought back into production. also attended by children watching the agonies of bulls and mutilation still alive. These are common in summer becerradas; end of summer, so becerradas and end torture. The politician in office, the mayor, the next day clean shirt will and will go on smiling streets, to also smiling, elegant and "self-brave" neighbors who have left the bloody clothes washer. "Panem et circenses - Bread and circuses".
This is also Spain, a country where torture culture with high taxes and where that bullfighting called "culture" is nothing more than mere torture. Look for yourselves:
www.eldiario.es/caballodenietzsche/Becerradas-cachorros-v...
becerradas.pacma.es/actuemos.php
yofuiungato.blogspot.com.es/2013/09/aficion-por-la-tortur...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TdTBLU3KxI
www.igualdadanimal.org/noticias/5608/torturas-y-matanza-e...
www.schnauzi.com/colectivos-animalistas-piden-abolicion-b...
No list would end the atrocities they find on the net about it all. And the different Spanish political parties continue, in this respect, rooted in the era of the dictatorship of "Excellency", that "Watcher of the West." Some get away from Spain, others to maintain a barbaric tradition in a contented people, others to keep his seat. I fail to understand how Ava Gardner could have the slightest interest in seeing these atrocities. I do not understand it in Ernest Hemingway or Orson Welles, or Pablo Picasso. They have done good performances, good works written, directed masterpieces of cinema art or be immortalized with these strokes on the white canvas, but something bad not learned to banish their souls. When I look at the beauty of his works he comes to my mind the barbarity with which enjoyed a part of their souls. It is this contradiction of man reflected on how Pablo Picasso could to like bullfighting when in his Guernica, along with people, bulls and horses also suffer.
Nor finally I understand the cowardly and tortuous profession of a bullfighter. Get killing calves formative years learning to confuse and eventually kill a bull. A bull, however, only has 10 minutes to learn and know the movements defend the bullfighter; to suspect that he is learning, you must be killed or otherwise, that bull will learn the minimum necessary to kill the torero. Notice that there are no bullfighting entrepreneurs who have pastures where bulls were trained extensively, with positive reinforcement, in sets of bullfighting, to foresee exactly where torero beyond wipe, which will move and where to go urgently is, low head and sharp horns to accurately reach the first set; to know the exact path of this ridiculous race that will do the banderillero and know what to do to give gored without giving option to put the banderillas; to know the weaknesses of the picadors and make the horse itself, without causing any scratch, throw it down the chopper and so have it at your beloved and tender antlers. Bulls that were widely formed in knowing where the bullfighter gored once it is on the ground, forgetting those passes cloak with those who try to mislead subordinates the task of gore fallen. In short: fighting bulls have formed in his defense as much as the torero and his crew of helpers, with guarantees to get out alive from the square cut ears and tail ... but cut the bullfighter; the same guarantees has bullfighter. How many with tight leotards showing calf shines on the backs, ridiculous hats and holes in the armpits of the jacket, they would in front of the bulls "with Master" ?. Paradoxically bulls would only vile murderers in the event that kill the bullfighter, bullfighters but if teachers would kill the bull. Touch your! (Would say my grandmother).
Let me insist (paraphrasing the son of a radio broadcast that runs on many years of His Excellency, with the same "Paco" and his "Franco Polo" in the Presidential Balcony of the square): This also "Brand Spain ". But sadly this also "will mark Spain" ... and not for good. Also things like "tag" to any of these "developed" countries of Northern Europe, such as murder every year dozens of pilot whales blows of hammers and axes ... with Children of that barbarous people watching the show, turning red sea water during this barbaric and traditional custom.
Homo homini lupus ?. This phrase, which is not exactly true, is original of Latin playwright Plautus (254-184 BC.), Where his work Asinaria literally says:
"Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit". Wolf is the man for man, and not man, when unknown who the other.
This Plautus accurate when you let the reader's interpretation we can decant it preferred "other" may be even any living being as well as men.
Taking up: Fray anticipates me, as always, and remained in that position full minutes. And only he reached the leaked looking into the distance, then I looked at her and continued his posture and effort. The image is taken to several tens of meters away. Have enough time for the frame, wait for him to look to the right for a while, interpreting its shape and leave with little detail in that dark shadow reflection of the dark days happened. Today would not have much time to make this picture, when I provided to frame and focus and be down the leg and is walking trotting ahead of me.
Treatment: With Aperture. Original RAW. Trimming the frame to provide the sea line at the top, below the mountain of gray background. The Fray rock in the left third. Remarked the shadows intensely obtaining a figure in the original version is much less evident, with more details. Increase a little saturation and vibration. Contrast and definition have also increased slightly to get better define the two fishing rods that are on the waterfront, at the right edge. Finally I apply vignette.
That's all folks !!
(Fr). Histoire: Bayas. Asturias. L'Espagne. Fray est d'avoir une bonne évolution de l'intervention chirurgicale dans ces derniers jours. Le sérome qui a été produite autour du site chirurgical a été progressivement réduite. Besoin pas sortir souvent de vider la vessie, être en mesure d'attendre à la maison pendant plus de huit heures sans laisser d'évacuer. Et exige à nouveau que le temps normal de quitter le territoire marque et le mécanisme du stress pas aussi prolongée pour éviter que la douleur qui avait jours plus tôt en raison de l'obstruction de l'urètre. Dans cette photo de ces mauvais jours va geler un des moments où il était dans cette position pendant plusieurs minutes, en difficulté dans un mince filet en essayant de vider la vessie. Alors, maintenant que tout se passe par: finissant été ... se terminant torture.
Mais dans d'autres domaines, dans cette Espagne qui est la mienne, cette Espagne nôtre, donc l'été et à la torture est non seulement pour Fray. Espagne, le pays où étrange survivre à un ensemble de lois contre la maltraitance des animaux, mais à la place, nous avons des lois qui régissent la façon de plaisir à regarder torturer et tuer un taureau dans les arènes. Il y a même une déréglementation complète des becerradas une célébration encore plus cruelle que nous voyons dans une corrida.
Les veaux sont les bovins de moins de deux ans, près de chiots bull simples. Ces veaux elles sont prises dans des endroits où des centaines de personnes qui se sont considérés comme courageux, ils intimident dans le ring, trompé, torturés et tués par les centaines qui ont entre habitants des villes et de leurs invités, coupe queue et des oreilles rassemblent souvent tout en étant toujours vivant. Le clou final peut être effectué par un ignare complet dans une telle procédure, l'animal peut souffrir en ce moment final de la vie, même en tenant minutes à l'agonie bourreau maladroit.
Le Parti Populaire a permis la tenue becerradas à El Escorial, Madrid. Après des années de suppression, ont été remis en production. également fréquentée par les enfants à regarder les agonies de taureaux et les mutilations encore en vie. Ils sont communs dans becerradas d'été; fin de l'été, de sorte becerradas et la torture de fin. Le politicien dans le bureau, le maire, la chemise propre lendemain sera et ira dans les rues souriants, à sourire aussi, les voisins élégantes et "auto-courageux" qui ont quitté le vêtements sanglante rondelle. «Panem et circenses - Du pain et des jeux».
Ceci est aussi l'Espagne, un pays où la culture de la torture avec des impôts élevés et où que la corrida appelé la «culture» est rien de plus que la simple torture. Regardez par vous-mêmes:
www.eldiario.es/caballodenietzsche/Becerradas-cachorros-v...
becerradas.pacma.es/actuemos.php
yofuiungato.blogspot.com.es/2013/09/aficion-por-la-tortur...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TdTBLU3KxI
www.igualdadanimal.org/noticias/5608/torturas-y-matanza-e...
www.schnauzi.com/colectivos-animalistas-piden-abolicion-b...
Aucune liste mettrait fin aux atrocités qu'ils trouvent sur le net à propos de tout cela. Et les différents partis politiques espagnols continuent, à cet égard, enracinée dans l'ère de la dictature du «Excellence», que «Vigilant de l'Ouest." Certains obtiennent loin de l'Espagne, d'autres pour maintenir une tradition barbare dans un peuple heureux, d'autres à garder son siège. Je ne comprends pas comment Ava Gardner pourrait avoir le moindre intérêt à voir ces atrocités. Je ne comprends pas dans Ernest Hemingway ou Orson Welles, ou Pablo Picasso. Ils ont fait de bonnes performances, bonnes œuvres écrites, des chefs-d'œuvre du cinéma dirigés art ou être immortalisé avec ces traits sur la toile blanche, mais quelque chose de mauvais pas appris à bannir de leurs âmes. Quand je regarde la beauté de ses œuvres, il vient à l'esprit la barbarie avec laquelle jouissait d'une partie de leurs âmes. Il est cette contradiction de l'homme réfléchi sur la façon dont Pablo Picasso pouvait aimer la tauromachie quand, dans son Guernica, avec les gens, taureaux et les chevaux souffrent aussi.
Ni enfin, je comprends la profession lâche et tortueuse d'un torero. Obtenez tuer veaux années de formation apprendre à semer la confusion et éventuellement tuer un taureau. Un taureau, cependant, ne dispose que de 10 minutes pour apprendre et connaître les mouvements défendent le torero; à soupçonner qu'il est l'apprentissage, vous devez être tué ou autrement, ce taureau va apprendre le minimum nécessaire pour tuer le torero. Remarquez qu'il y a pas d'entrepreneurs de la tauromachie qui ont pâturages où les taureaux ont été formés intensivement, avec le renforcement positif, dans des ensembles de tauromachie, de prévoir exactement où torero essuyer au-delà, qui se déplace et où aller est urgent, faible tête et les cornes pointues pour atteindre avec précision la première série; de connaître le chemin exact de cette course ridicule que fera le banderillero et de savoir quoi faire pour donner un coup de corne sans donner l'option de mettre les banderilles; de connaître les faiblesses des picadors et de faire le cheval lui-même, sans causer de zéro, faire tomber le couperet et ainsi avoir à vos bien-aimés bois et tendres. Taureau qui ont été largement formés à savoir où le torero encorné une fois qu'il est sur le terrain, oubliant ces passes manteau à ceux qui essaient de tromper les subordonnés la tâche de gore tombé. En bref: les taureaux de combat se sont formées dans sa défense autant que le torero et son équipage d'assistants, avec des garanties pour sortir vivant de les oreilles coupées carrés et la queue ... mais couper le torero; les mêmes garanties a torero. Combien de maillots serrés montrant veau brille sur le dos, des chapeaux ridicules et les trous dans les aisselles de la veste, ils le feraient devant les taureaux "avec Maître"?. Paradoxalement taureaux seraient meurtriers ne vils dans l'événement qui tuent le torero, les toreros, mais si les enseignants allaient tuer le taureau. Touchez votre! (dirais ma grand-mère).
Permettez-moi d'insister (pour paraphraser le fils d'une émission de radio qui fonctionne sur de nombreuses années de Son Excellence, avec le même "Paco" et son "Franco Polo" dans le balcon présidentiel de la place): Cela a également "Marque Espagne ". Mais malheureusement cela aussi "marquera l'Espagne" ... et pas pour de bon. Aussi des choses comme «tag» à l'une de ces pays «développés» de l'Europe du Nord, comme les assassiner tous année des dizaines de globicéphales coups de marteaux et de haches ... avec enfants de ce peuple barbare en regardant le spectacle, virant au rouge l'eau de mer au cours de cette coutume barbare et traditionnelle.
Homo homini lupus?. Cette phrase, qui est pas exactement vrai, est d'origine latine du dramaturge Plaute (254-184 av. JC), où son travail Asinaria dit littéralement:
"Lupus homini est homo, non homo, Quom Qualis assis non novit". Wolf est l'homme pour l'homme, et non l'homme, quand inconnu qui l'autre.
Cette Plaute précise lorsque vous laissez l'interprétation du lecteur, nous peut décanter préféré «autre» peut-être même tout être vivant ainsi que les hommes.
Prendre: Fray me anticipe, comme toujours, et est resté dans cette position minutes complètes. Et seulement atteint le regardant fuite dans la distance, alors je l'ai regardée et continué sa posture et de l'effort. L'image est prise à plusieurs dizaines de mètres. Avoir assez de temps pour le cadre, attendre pour lui de regarder à droite pendant un certain temps, l'interprétation de sa forme et de laisser avec peu de détails en ce que la réflexion de l'ombre des jours sombres arrivé. Aujourd'hui aurait pas beaucoup de temps pour faire cette photo, quand je pour encadrer et de se concentrer et d'être en bas de la jambe et se promène au trot devant moi.
Traitement: Avec Aperture. Origine RAW. Découper le cadre de fournir la ligne de la mer au sommet, en dessous de la montagne de fond gris. La roche Fray dans le tiers gauche. Remarqua le ombres obtention intensément une figure dans la version originale est beaucoup moins évidente, avec plus de détails. Augmentez un peu la saturation et les vibrations. Contraste et la définition ont également légèrement augmenté pour aller mieux définir les deux cannes à pêche qui sont sur le front de mer, sur le bord droit. Enfin je demande vignette.
Voilà, c'est tout!
Hong Kong is so crowded, some time it feels like the whole city is crammed into a little bottle.
Shot through the bottom of a 1/3 filled glass bottle. Improved execution on an earlier experiment.
Original skyline photo was displayed on an iPhone 4 display, which was placed behind a partially filled clear glass bottle laying on it's side.
This photograph featured in online article by Tia Ghose called: '' Crows and ravens took over the world because they're spookily smart (and brawny, too) '', in LIVESCIENCE, part of Future US Inc, an International media group and leading digital publisher in America.© Future US, Inc. Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036.
The photograph was previously published by Getty Images on July 14th 2021
AN IN DEPTH LOOK AT CORVUS CORONE
LEGEND AND MYTHOLOGY
By Paul Williams
Crows appear in the Bible where Noah uses one to search for dry land and to check on the recession of the flood. Crows supposedly saved the prophet, Elijah, from famine and are an Inuit deity. Legend has it that England and its monarchy will end when there are no more crows in the Tower of London. And some believe that the crows went to the Tower attracted by the regular corpses following executions with written accounts of their presence at the executions of Anne Boleyn and Jane Gray.
In Welsh mythology, unfortunately Crows are seen as symbolic of evilness and black magic thanks to many references to witches transforming into crows or ravens and escaping. Indian legend tells of Kakabhusandi, a crow who sits on the branches of a wish-fulfilling tree called Kalpataru and a crow in Ramayana where Lord Rama blessed the crow with the power to foresee future events and communicate with the souls.
In Native American first nation legend the crow is sometimes considered to be something of a trickster, though they are also viewed positively by some tribes as messengers between this world and the next where they carry messages from the living to those deceased, and even carry healing medicines between both worlds. There is a belief that crows can foresee the future. The Klamath tribe in Oregon believe that when we die, we fly up to heaven as a crow. The Crow can also signify wisdom to some tribes who believe crows had the power to talk and were therefore considered to be one of the wisest of birds. Tribes with Crow Clans include the Chippewa (whose Crow Clan and its totem are called Aandeg), the Hopi (whose Crow Clan is called Angwusngyam or Ungwish-wungwa), the Menominee, the Caddo, the Tlingit, and the Pueblo tribes of New Mexico.
The crow features in the Nanissáanah (Ghost dance), popularized by Jerome Crow Dog, a Brulé Lakota sub-chief and warrior born at Horse Stealing Creek in Montana Territory in 1833, the crow symbolizing wisdom and the past, when the crow had became a guide and acted as a pathfinder during hunting. The Ghost dance movement was originally created in 1870 by Wodziwob, or Gray Hair, a prophet and medicine man of the Paiute tribe in an area that became known as Nevada. Ghost dancers wore crow and eagle feathers in their clothes and hair, and the fact that the Crow could talk placed it as one of the sages of the animal kingdom. The five day dances seeking trance,prophecy and exhortations would eventually play a major part in the pathway towards the white man's broken treaties, the infamous battle at Wounded knee and the surrender of Matȟó Wanáȟtaka (Kicking Bear), after officials began to fear the ghost dancers and rituals which seemed to occur prior to battle.
Historically the Vikings are the group who made so many references to the crow, and Ragnarr Loðbrók and his sons used this species in his banner as well as appearances in many flags and coats of arms. Also, it had some kind of association with Odin, one of their main deities. Norse legend tells us that Odin is accompanied by two crows. Hugin, who symbolizes thought, and Munin, who represents a memory. These two crows were sent out each dawn to fly the entire world, returning at breakfast where they informed the Lord of the Nordic gods of everything that went on in their kingdoms. Odin was also referred to as Rafnagud (raven-god). The raven appears in almost every skaldic poem describing warfare.Coins dating back to 940's minted by Olaf Cuaran depict the Viking war standard, the Raven and Viking war banners (Gonfalon) depicted the bird also.
In Scandinavian legends, crows are a representative of the Goddess of Death, known as Valkyrie (from old Norse 'Valkyrja'), one of the group of maidens who served the Norse deity Odin, visiting battlefields and sending him the souls of the slain worthy of a place in Valhalla. Odin ( also called Wodan, Woden, or Wotan), preferred that heroes be killed in battle and that the most valiant of souls be taken to Valhöll, the hall of slain warriors. It is the crow that provides the Valkyries with important information on who should go. In Hindu ceremonies that are associated to ancestors, the crow has an important place in Vedic rituals. They are seen as messengers of death in Indian culture too.
In Germanic legend, Crows are seen as psychonomes, meaning the act of guiding spirits to their final destination, and that the feathers of a crow could cure a victim who had been cursed. And yet, a lone black crow could symbolize impending death, whilst a group symbolizes a lucky omen! Vikings also saw good omens in the crow and would leave offerings of meat as a token.
The crow also has sacred and prophetic meaning within the Celtic civilization, where it stood for flesh ripped off due to combat and Morrighan, the warrior goddess, often appears in Celtic mythology as a raven or crow, or else is found to be in the company of the birds. Crow is sacred to Lugdnum, the Celtic god of creation who gave his name to the city of Lug
In Greek mythology according to Appolodorus, Apollo is supposedly responsible for the black feathers of the crow, turning them forever black from their pristine white original plumage as a punishment after they brought news that Κορωνις (Coronis) a princess of the Thessalian kingdom of Phlegyantis, Apollo's pregnant lover had left him to marry a mortal, Ischys. In one legend, Apollo burned the crows feathers and then burned Coronis to death, in another Coronis herself was turned into a black crow, and another that she was slain by the arrows of Αρτεμις (Artemis - twin to Apollo). Koronis was later set amongst the stars as the constellation Corvus ("the Crow"). Her name means "Curved One" from the Greek word korônis or "Crow" from the word korônê.A similar Muslim legend allegedly tells of Muhammad, founder of Islam and the last prophet sent by God to Earth, who's secret location was given away by a white crow to his seekers, as he hid in caves. The crow shouted 'Ghar Ghar' (Cave, cave) and thus as punishment, Muhammad turned the crow black and cursed it for eternity to utter only one phrase, 'Ghar, ghar). Native Indian legend where the once rainbow coloured crows became forever black after shedding their colourful plumage over the other animals of the world.
In China the Crow is represented in art as a three legged bird on a solar disk, being a creature that helps the sun in its journey. In Japan there are myths of Crow Tengu who were priests who became vain, and turned into this spirit to serve as messengers until they learn the lesson of humility as well as a great Crow who takes part in Shinto creation stories.
In animal spirit guides there are general perceptions of what sightings of numbers of crows actually mean:
1 Crow Meaning: To carry a message from your near one who died recently.
2 Crows Meaning: Two crows sitting near your home signifies some good news is on your way.
3 Crows Meaning: An upcoming wedding in your family.
4 Crows Meaning: Symbolizes wealth and prosperity.
5 Crows Meaning: Diseases or pain.
6 Crows Meaning: A theft in your house!
7 Crows Meaning: Denotes travel or moving from your house.
8 Crows Meaning: Sorrowful events
Crows are generally seen as the symbolism when alive for doom bringing, misfortune and bad omens, and yet a dead crow symbolises potentially bringing good news and positive change to those who see it. This wonderful bird certainly gets a mixed bag of contradictory mythology and legend over the centuries and in modern days is often seen as a bit of a nuisance, attacking and killing the babies of other birds such as Starlings, Pigeons and House Sparrows as well as plucking the eyes out of lambs in the field, being loud and noisy and violently attacking poor victims in a 'crow court'....
There is even a classic horror film called 'THE CROW' released in 1994 by Miramax Films, directed by Alex Proyas and starring Brandon Lee in his final film appearance as Eric Draven, who is revived by a Crow tapping on his gravestone a year after he and his fiancée are murdered in Detroit by a street gang. The crow becomes his guide as he sets out to avenge the murders. The only son of martial arts expert Bruce Lee, Brandon lee suffered fatal injuries on the set of the film when the crew failed to remove the primer from a cartridge that hit Lee in the abdomen with the same force as a normal bullet. Lee died that day, March 31st 1993 aged 28.
The symbolism of the Crow resurrecting the dead star and accompanying him on his quest for revenge was powerful, and in some part based on the history of the carrion crow itself and the original film grossed more than $94 Million dollars with three subsequent sequels following.
TAKING A CLOSER LOOK
So let's move away from legend, mythology and stories passed down from our parents and grandparents and look at these amazing birds in isolation.
Carrion crow are passerines in the family Corvidae a group of Oscine passerine birds including Crows, Ravens, Rooks, Jackdaws, Jays, Magpies, Treepies, Choughs and Nutcrackers. Technically they are classed as Corvids, and the largest of passerine birds. Carrion crows are medium to large in size with rictal bristles and a single moult per year (most passerines moult twice). Carrion crow was one of the many species originally described by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus (Carl Von Linne after his ennoblement) in his 1758 and 1759 editions of 'SYSTEMA NATURAE', and it still bears its original name of Corvus corone, derived from the Latin of Corvus, meaning Raven and the Greek κορώνη (korōnē), meaning crow.
Carrion crow are of the Animalia kingdom Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Corvidae Genus: Corvus and Species: Corvus corone
Corvus corone can reach 45-47cm in length with a 93-104cm wingspan and weigh between 370-650g. They are protected under The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 in the United Kingdom with a Green UK conservation status which means they are of least concern with more than 1,000,000 territories. Breeding occurs in April with fledging of the chicks taking around twenty nine days following an incubation period of around twenty days with 3 to 4 eggs being the average norm. They are abundant in the UK apart from Northwest Scotland and Ireland where the Hooded crow (Corvus cornix) was considered the same species until 2002. They have a lifespan of around four years, whilst Crow species can live to the age of Twenty years old, and the oldest known American crow in the wild was almost Thirty years old. The oldest documented captive crow died at age Fifty nine. They are smaller and have a shorter lifespan than the Raven, which again is used as a symbol in history to live life to the full and not waste a moment!
They are often mistaken for the Rook (Corvus frugilegus), a similar bird, though in the UK, the Rook is actually technically smaller than the Carrion crow averaging 44-46cm in length, 81-99cm wingspan and weighing up to 340g. Rooks have white beaks compared to the black beaks of Carrion crow, a more steeply raked ratio from head to beak, and longer straighter beaks as well as a different plumage pattern. There are documented cases in the UK of singular and grouped Rooks attacking and killing Carrion crows in their territory. Rooks nest in colonies unlike Carrion crows. Carrion crows have only a few natural enemies including powerful raptors such as the northern goshawk, the peregrine falcon, the Eurasian eagle-owl and the golden eagle which will all readily hunt them.
Regarded as one of the most intelligent birds, indeed creatures on the planet, studies suggest that Corvids cognitive abilities can rival that of primates such as chimpanzees and gorillas and even provide clues to understanding human intelligence. Crows have relatively large brains for their body size, compared to other animals. Their encephalization quotient (EQ) a ratio of brain to body size, adjusted for size because there isn’t a linear relationship is 4.1. That is remarkably close to chimps at 4.2 whilst humans are 8.1. Corvids also have a very high neuronal density, the number of neurons per gram of brain, factoring in the number of cortical neurons, neuron packing density, interneuronal distance and axonal conduction velocity shows that Corvids score high on this measure as well, with humans scoring the highest.
A corvid's pallium is packed with more neurons than a great ape's. Corvids have demonstrated the ability to use a combination of mental tools such as imagination, and anticipation of future events. They can craft tools from twigs and branches to hook grubs from deep recesses, they can solve puzzles and intricate methods of gaining access to food set by humans., and have even bent pieces of wire into hooks to obtain food. They have been proven to have a higher cognitive ability level than seven year old humans. Communications wise, their repertoire of wraw-wraw's is not fully understood, but the intensity, rhythm, and duration of caws seems to form the basis of a possible language. They also remember the faces of humans who have hindered or hurt them and pass that information on to their offspring.
Aesop's fable of 'The Crow and the Pitcher, tells of a thirsty crow which drops stones into a water pitcher to raise the water level and enable it to take a drink. Scientists have conducted tests to see whether crows really are this intelligent. They placed floating treats in a deep tube and observed the crows indeed dropping dense objects carefully selected into the water until the treat floated within reach. They had the intelligence to pick up, weigh and discount objects that would float in the water, they also did not select ones that were too large for the container.
Pet crows develop a unique call for their owners, in effect actually naming them. They also know to sunbathe for a dose of vitamin D, regularly settling on wooden garden fences, opening their mouths and wings and raising their heads to the sun. In groups they warn of danger and communicate vocally. They store a cache of food for later if in abundance and are clever enough to move it if they feel it has been discovered. They leave markers for their cache. They have even learned to place walnuts and similar hard food items under car tyres at traffic lights as a means of cracking them!
Crows regularly gather around a dead fellow corvid, almost like a funeral, and it is thought they somehow learn from each death. They can even remember human faces for decades.Crows group together to attack larger predators and even steal their food, and they have different dialects in different areas, with the ability to mimic the dialect of the alpha males when they enter their territory!
They have a twenty year life span, the oldest on record reaching the age of Fifty nine. Crows can leave gifts for those who feed them such as buttons or bright shiny objects as a thank you, and they even kiss and make up after an argument, having mated for life.
In mythology they are associated with good and bad luck, being the bringers of omens and even witchcraft and are generally reviled for their attacks on baby birds and small mammals. They have an attack method of to stunning smaller birds before consuming them, tearing violently at smaller, less aggressive birds, which is simply down to the fact that they are so highly intelligent, and also the top of the food chain.
Their diet includes over a thousand different items: Dead animals (as their name suggests), invertebrates, grain, as well as stealing eggs and chicks from other birds' nests, worms, insects, fruit, seeds, kitchen scraps. They are highly adaptable when food sources grow scarce. I absolutely love them, they are magnificent, bold, beautiful and incredibly interesting to watch and though at times it is hard to witness attacks made by them, I cannot help but adore them for so many other and more important reasons.
OBSERVATIONS ON THE PAIR IN MY GARDEN
Crows have been in the area for a while, but rarely had strayed into my garden, leaving the Magpies to own the territory. Things changed towards the end of May when a beautiful female Carrion crow appeared and began to take some of the food that I put down for the other birds. Within a few days she began to appear regularly, on occasions stocking up on food, whilst other times placing pieces in the birdbath to soften them. She would stand on the birdbath and eat and drink and come back over the course of the day to eat the softened food.
Shortly afterwards she brought along her mate, a tall and handsome fella, much larger than her who was also very vocal if he felt she was getting a little too close to me. By now I had moved from a seated position from the patio as an observer, to laying on a mat just five feet from the birdbath with my Nikon so that I could photograph the pair as they landed, scavenged and fed. She was now confident enough to let me be very close, and she even tolerated and recognized the clicking of the camera. At first I used silent mode to reduce the noise but this only allowed two shooting frame rates of single frame or continuous low frame which meant I was missing shots. I reverted back to normal continuous high frames and she soon got used to the whirring of the mechanisms as the mirror slapped back and forth.
The big fella would bark orders at her from the safety of the fence or the rear of the garden, whilst she rarely made a sound. That was until one day when in the sweltering heat she kept opening her beak and sunning on the grass, panting slightly in the heat. I placed the circular water sprayer nearby and had it rotating so that the birdbath and grass was bathed in gentle water droplets and she soon came back, landed and seemed to really like the cooling effect on offer. She then climbed onto the birdbath and opened her wings slightly and made some gentle purring, cooing noises....
I swear she was expressing happiness, joy....
On another blisteringly hot day when the sprayer was on, she came down, walked towards it and opened her wings up running into the water spray. Not once, but many times.
A further revelation into the unseen sides to these beautiful birds came with the male and female on the rear garden fence. They sat together, locked beaks like a kiss and then the male took his time gently preening her head feathers and the back of her neck as she made tiny happy sounds. They stayed together like that for several minutes, showing a gentle, softer side to their nature and demonstrating the deep bond between them. Into July and the pair started to bring their three youngsters to my garden, the nippers learning to use the birdbath for bathing and dipping food, the parents attentive as ever. Two of the youngsters headed off once large enough and strong enough.
I was privileged to be in close attendance as the last juvenile was brought down by the pair, taught to take food and then on a night in July, to soar and fly with it's mother in the evening sky as the light faded. She would swoop and twirl, and at regular intervals just touch the juvenile in flight with her wing tip feathers, as if to reassure it that she was close in attendance. What an amazing experience to view. A few days later, the juvenile, though now gaining independence and more than capable of tackling food scraps in the garden, was still on occasions demand feeding from it's mother who was now teaching him to take chicken breast, hotdogs or digestive biscuits and bury them in the garden beds for later delectation. The juvenile also liked to gather up peanuts and bury them in the grass. On one occasion I witnessed a pair of rambunctious Pica Pica (Magpies), chasing the young crow on rooftops, leaping at him no matter how hard he tried to get away. He defended himself well and survived the attacks, much to my relief.
Into August and the last youngster remained with the adults, though now was very independent even though he still spent time with his parents on rooftops, and shared food gathering duties with his mum.Hotdog sausages were their favourite choice, followed by fish fingers and digestive biscuits which the adult male would gather up three at a time. In October, the three Crows were still kings of the area, but my time observing them was pretty much over as I will only put food out now for the birds in the winter months.
Corvus Corone.... magnificently misunderstood by some!
Paul Williams June 4th 2021
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Sixty four metres at 11:04am on a beautiful morning on Saturday 29th May 2021, off Hythe Avenue and Chessington Avenue in Bexleyheath, Kent.
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Following the modest success of the post-WWII Ralston Tigre MkII, the Ralston company looked to a more ambitious and glamorous execution with the Tigre MkIII, released in 1961.
The basis for the new car, again came from the General Motors' premium division - Cadillac - for the architectural hardware.
The Frame & Underbody was developed from the 1959/60 GM 'C' Bodies - a short-lived production run for GM, hence the availability to the Ralston Company. Wheelbase was set at 130 in (3,302 mm) for the standard sedan, and all the specialty 2-door cars. The long-wheelbase Limousine, Town Car and Specialty models sharing the GM 'D' Body 150 in (3,805 mm) with the Cadillac Series 75 / Fleetwood.
Powertrain was also Cadillac derived, incluing the 390 CID (6.4 Litre) V8 engine. Power was rated the same 345 bhp (257 kW). Cadillac was to retire this engine, with the development of a new engine of the same capacity for 1961.
One notable characteristic of all Ralston Tigre MkIII models are the reverse-opening doors. On all two-door cars, the doors operated on special hinges to move backwards along the body, offering easier ingress and egress for all passengers. For the four-door models, the front doors were conventionally hinged, per the originating GM 'C' and 'D' body vehicles, whilst the rear doors adopted the special hinged mechanism to allow rear passengers easier access. The adoption of GM's body-on-frame chassis permitted the omission of a conventional B-pillar on the four-door cars. A rarity at the time, but shared with the contemporary Lincoln saloons.
The real party trick appeared in 1964, with the introduction of the MkIII B. This model, though visually little changed from the MkIII of 1961, incorporated the first (and only) reintroduction of the V12 engine to the US-based motor industry.
Once more, the engine was based on that of a Cadillac.
www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2010/04/the-ohc-v12-that-cadill...
The prototype engines were produced in 7.4 and 8.2 litre forms, originally to support the fitment of the V12 to the upcoming Cadillac Eldorado - Cadillac's first front-wheel-drive vehicle. Ultimately the V12 installation in the Eldorado was cancelled, as the engineering team considered the engine to be transversely installed, until late in the development, where the V12 length would have been a significant disadvantage in terms of installing a matching transmission. Cadillac instead, continued with V8 development at the same swept capacities, even when the Eldorado was ultimately launched with the longitudinal engine installation with the gearbox alongside. As the Eldorado was to be the most premium of premium Cadillacs, the large capacity V8s filtered across to the RWD BOF models, but the V12 was not fitted to any of the division's cars.
This opened the possibility of offering the V12 to another luxury vehicle manufacturer who did not have the funding to develop such an engine on their own.
Ralston, wishing to also continue the production of the V8 models launched in 1961, renamed the V8 as the , and offered the V12 engined as a premium model above this. In truth, the engine was the only key difference, as there were very few restriction on the use of either engine in combination with the low-volume bodystyles on offer.
Ralston remained (relatively) conservative on the engine specification, choosing not to lift the power from the original Cadillac specification, nonetheless choosing the larger 8.2 litre capacity engine at a rated 394 hp (296 kW) and 506 lb.ft (686 Nm).
Externally there was noting to differentiate between the fitment of the V8 and V12 engines to the cars, other than the subtle text spelling out or on the side engine vent ahead of the doors. The 1964 introduction coincided with a minor external facelift, key change being the fitment of a third 'X' feature in the front grille, replacing the '5th' headlamp feature fitted on 1961-early 1964 vehicles. Additionally, the modest tailfins were trimmed smaller again, and a more conservative rear licence plate treatment used in place of the 3rd rocket pod in the rear facia.
The model shown here is the rare 'GlassRoof' Hardtop model. This features the outer bows from the standard hardtop, augmented by a third, central bow, tied to the front header bow, and two transverse bows to the side bows. The rear window remained glass, though to a different design to the regular hardtop, while the four glass panels in the roof were actually poly-carbonate (a type of very hard plastic), to improve roof durabaility. The panels were also heavily tinted to reduce heat build up in the cabin.
This metallic earth-orange 'GlassRoof' was one of 18 models built, and the 3rd V12 engined model.
This Lego miniland-scale Ralston Tigre MkIII B GlassRoof Hardtop (1964) has been created for Flickr LUGNuts' 95th Build Challenge, - "Designing the Ralston Legacy", - for the design of vehicles under the fictional 'Ralston' company. The models must include a 'X' design feature on the car or bike. A number of Ralston challenge vehicle concepts are possible in this challenge.
[Cadillac V12 engine information taken from 'thetruthaboutcars.com']
www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2010/04/the-ohc-v12-that-cadill...
Back in 1853 Anders Gustav Pettersson brutally murdered his employer Hugo Fredrik Jaedren at the gates to the Näringsberg estate, together with a compatriot. They were arrested the following day. The trial took place at Tingshuset in Västerhaninge, and two years later Anders Gustav Pettersson became the last person to be executed at this galgsten in Jordbro. He was beheaded. My third photo from today's Thursday Walk for Utata.